November Craft Weekend

Our November Make and Take Craft Weekend was a complete blast from the moment the ladies arrived on Friday evening until Sunday morning when they left. So sad it had to come to an end so soon! Our weekend in pictures (a lot of pictures!)...

Name tags for the lovely ladies.

Elena cutting her material for ruffles.

Jill killing the sewing machine as a newbie! She even hemmed some of her pants!

Maggie and Erin starting their mason jars.

Ruth sewing her ruffles on her tote bag.

Ruth, Rita and Bev working on their tote bags.

Elena hemming her ruffles, she discovered there's something to this "crafting" thing!

Jill, Elena, Maggie and Erin working on their bags Friday.

Maggie and Erin pinning their ruffles onto bags.

Rita got creative and added a pocket to the back of the bag! Love!

Bev's

Erin's

Jill's

Maggie's

Elena's

Rita's

Ruth's

All the pretty bags! Such personality in every single one of them!

Jill "posing" while shopping at The Vintage Farmhouse.

Checking out the goods at The Painted Home.

Lunch at The Old Dutch Tavern.

Wanting everything in this vintage sewing window display at Four Seasons Florist.

Thinking about those signs from The Painted Home.

Bev with the adorable hoop art she made for her awesome grandson!

Erin working on such a beautiful hoop art project!

Erin and her finished infinity scarf, loving the pop of yellow from her flower pin.

Picking out and cutting knit materials for infinity scarfs and flower buttons.

Rita and Debbie figuring out Rita's scarf.

Rita sewing on some pearl beads to her hoop art. I'm a little jealous of her mad skills!

Love how Ruth added the burlap behind her ribbons!

And this my friends is what creativity looks like plus snacks on mug rugs!

Burlap runners just in time for Christmas decorating!

A few finished projects from Saturday night crafting!

Rita's bag and scarf, cute!

Wire words.

A table full of completed goodies!

Another table full of completed goodies!

Our awesome, amazing, funny, kind, full of laughs November Craft Weekend ladies!

This weekend was phenomenal, amazing, magnificent and way too short! We had some veteran crafters and newbies and they all killed the crafts we had for them! Everyone was so willing to help each other out and I believe we all left with new found friends. We had many first this weekend: sewing through the flat head of a pin without breaking a needle, sewing plastic on the inside of the bag, sewing the bag shut, and hot gluing a button to a behind! The memories and laughs we shared will forever have a place in my heart and the best thing is, these ladies are all so close I see some get together's in the near future, I hope! Thank you ladies.

If interested in coming to a Craft Weekend, we would love be your host and pamper you, check out Make and Take Craft Weekend. We will be adding more dates soon and we just added the April Craft Weekend which will coordinate with St. Louis Vintage Market Days! We are also offering a few Scrapbooking Weekends, we provide lodging, meals and snacks and you bring your supplies to have a whole weekend dedicated to scrapbooking!

October Make and Take Craft Weekend

Can I just say, what an amazing group of ladies we had this weekend and how awesome the weekend was! I'm totally bummed it's over! We had so much fun getting to know each other, laughing together, watching everyone's different creative styles come to life, shopping together and sharing yummy meals together.

Name-tags

Goodie Bags

Friday night we settled in with dinner at the farm tables, then it was off to the Craft Room to begin our ruffle bags and to start on the mason jar vases. The ladies all came up with such awesome combinations for their ruffles. I love to see all the colors and prints that are put together, it's always very inspiring!

Sharing dinner together

Laying out the ruffles

Sewing

Pinned ruffles

Pressing hems

Sewing

Finished Ruffle Bags

Mason jar vases

Sewing

Saturday morning, after a make your own waffle breakfast, we headed out to do a little shopping. Our first stop was The Vintage Farmhouse, which has such great stuff and it's always changing so you never know what you might find! Our next stop was Tanglewood Cottage, that has one of a kind bigger pieces which I would love to add to my house! Lunch was at The Blue Duck and was delish as usual, then the ladies walked around downtown for a bit and did some more shopping.

Waffle bar

The Vintage Farmhouse

The Vintage Farmhouse

Me at The Vintage Farmhouse

Tanglewood Cottage

Picked this beauty up at Tanglewood Cottage for The Craft House

Debbie, Olivia, Teresa, Hannah, Cindy, Maria and Sheree

Back at the Craft House we jumped right in with the next round of crafting. Dinner was thrown in the mix along with cheering the Cardinal's on to a victory! These ladies were pretty serious about their crafting and worked so hard but we still had a lot of laughs together.

Infinity scarf

Scarf with flower pin

Sewing

Paper crafting

Finished autumn wreaths

Burlap runners

Burlap runners

Sunday was a sleeping in kind of morning, another yummy breakfast and finishing up the mason jar vases. We had some fun with picture taking and lots of hugs goodbye to end the morning!

Blueberry monkey bread, yummy!

Distressing mason jars

Finished mason jar vases!

I just loved these ladies that came this weekend and had such a wonderful experience with all of them! Feeling truly blessed to have had the chance meet them and share this time with them!

If you want more information about Make and Take Craft Weekend check out the website.